Noob friendly RAW processor? That may not exist
If you mean just make good jpegs from RAW without really learning anything about the process,anyway. IMHO if you are not prepared to learn quite a bit about processing RAWs and graphics in general you are better off just shooting jpegs. I have several friends that shoot professionally and could not be bothered with RAW they feel it wastes too much time for little gain. Not saying I agree but they make a living at it.
If you do want to shoot RAW and learn how then get Lightroom and be done with it.
I started with Silkypix and had a terrible time, just could never figure out the darn thing. Moved to GIMP and then Elements and while those both certainly work it always felt as if the workflow was stilted.
I finally bought Lightroom and though the learning curve is steep it was designed from the ground up to process a card of RAW images into jpegs. The biggest trick to LR is to use presets or templates, once you have something the way you like just make a preset for it. My import preset moves the RAWs to my server into the proper directories and creates new ones as needed, makes a backup on an external drive, adds my copyright info, renames the file according to the convention I use, adds basic develop settings such as contrast, clarity, vibrance, and sharpening, creates the thumbnail views and if I want adds basic keywords. All in one step. Then I process or tweak individual files as needed, caption and keyword. Delete anything I don't want and done.
You need to determine what you want to do with your images. If you want to add layers and make composites and do general graphic artist stuff then Photoshop (or GIMP or Elements ) is the way to go. If you want to process a lot of images quickly, keyword them and be able to sort and find them again, then Lightroom is where you go.